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Some people just can’t wait. These movies will only be available via the HDMI port on PPV enabled cable boxes so you can’t just hook up a HD-PVR and copy the movie. You will need an HDfury as well.
I would get dropouts in the file on HDHR recordings when I uploaded a large file to the WHS. I was also using a Gigabyte board with the onboard gigabit nic. I upgraded to an Intel PCIe nic and the problem went away. $30 on Newegg.
I still can’t upload a large file to the WHS and play back a high bitrate 1080p movie without hiccups, but I think that is related to harddrive throughput more than the network. That’s why I keep my TV recording drives off of the drive pool. I see no reason to include them in the drive pool.
That’s my opinion as well. If I really want surround sound, I will set up speakers rather than spend a bunch of money on fake surround. The Boston is just a direct replacement of the TV speakers and comes with a handy wireless sub, all for $300. It’s the choice I would make.
I’m planning on getting it. I haven’t play civ much in the past though, so I will have a learning curve.
The HD baseT systems use HDCP. In fact, you still need a standard HDMI chip in the mix for HD BaseT to work. So that means that HD BaseT is also probably hacked.
The GDDR5 5570 cards approach the 5670 in speed. Most are still using GDDR3 though.
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The other bit of speculation is around full support for Cable Card. Sage has licensed PlayReady DRM, which is the DRM used for CableCard on PCs. The new HD300 also uses a processor that supports PlayReady DRM.Netflix has also moved to PlayReady, so maybe that’s the target. We won’t know until Sage formally releases something. But some of the pieces are coming into place.
[/quote]SageTV almost HAS to enable Cable Card and Netflix or else there will be a lot of disappointed folks. The rumors have me really excited.
How can we tell if we are marked copy freely? I’m in Los Altos CA with Comcast
Naylia,
Why did you get the video card? We got your Intel G45 onboard graphics working fine. Was it only because you wanted some gaming?
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man, I see this little box as huge potential as a quick and easy bedroom or under cupboard kitchen tv installdepending on how easy it is to feed all my current content to it, it could be a godsend
i can’t build a htpc that small, for that cheap
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You also can’t build a HTPC that useless…
UPDATED: New firmware enables multichannel PCM output on the HD300.
http://www.geektonic.com/2010/09/sagetv-hd300-review-update-multi.html
Yeah, it seems like no apps support for it. Lame…
It won’t be in my stocking this year then. Since I can get all of it’s functionality in other devices already.
I think you can force it in the drivers by clicking some options in the ATI drivers that says something like Force resolutions not supported by this tv. I’m not in front of my HTPC now but I’m sure you can find it.
It is big step backwards in hardware capability, but a step forward in streaming features. The fact that it will run on iphone hardware makes it easy to build apps for it in the itunes store.
I have the old one and was happy with it. It had the best streaming movies out of all my boxes. I modded it but found it was too slow for the HD content I watch. The SageTV HD200 is a much better experience for me.
I’ll wait to see how thing develop with these boxes. I can keep using my appleTV classic for streaming movies but if this little box will support things like hulu and netflix and pandora etc then I might grab one. $99 is cheap enough that it isn’t a big deal to replace my AppleTV classic.
No, because the HD-PVR drivers only support using a single emitter. You have to get a USB-UIRT
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